Chris Thompson <p>Meatcards started explosively in late April, 2009 between coworkers <a href="http://tikaro.com">John Young</a>, <a href="http://forge38.com">Randy Schmidt</a>, and <a href="http://www.awesome-software.net/">Will Ronco</a>. <a href="http://eagleapex.com">Chris Thompson</a> was brought in to combine his knowledge of laser with beef jerky to make the first prototype. We went from Idea to bOINGbOING in 3 days. You can read the complete time line on <a href="http://www.tikaro.com/2009/04/meat-cards-the-timeline.html">John&#8217;s blog</a>.</p> 2009-10-02T11:05:49-04:00 history 3513782 2009-10-02T11:05:49-04:00 364042 History 2009-11-15T14:22:41-05:00 Meatcards started explosively in late April, 2009 between coworkers "John Young":http://tikaro.com, "Randy Schmidt":http://forge38.com, and "Will Ronco":http://www.awesome-software.net/. "Chris Thompson":http://eagleapex.com was brought in to combine his knowledge of laser with beef jerky to make the first prototype. We went from Idea to bOINGbOING in 3 days. You can read the complete time line on "John's blog":http://www.tikaro.com/2009/04/meat-cards-the-timeline.html.